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Nat Hentoff: Mandate for the new Democratic majority: Curb the president’s power to torture
Nat Hentoff, The Examiner Dec 1, 2006 3:00 AM (1103 days ago)BALTIMORE The congressional Democratic leadership, eager to start investigations into the failures and cover-ups of their Republican predecessors have a list; but so far, the “black sites” of the CIA are far from a priority. But the president — who gave the CIA “special license” in 2002 to operate outside the law in kidnapping suspected terrorists and sending them to torture prisons abroad for interrogation — has already protected its interrogators with provisions he and Dick Cheney inserted into the Military Commissions Act of 2006.
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